My new OS installation with Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista SP1
Posted by Pramod on November 9, 2008
Last week I formatted my hard disk and installed Vista along with the new Ubuntu 8.10 
Here are the screenshots of my Ubuntu and Vista… I have always liked the blue background which comes from MAC OSX.
Well I first installed the Vista since if i would have installed the latter after installing Ubuntu i would have lost my GRUB boot loader. The installation of Vista was quite fast and simple… However after restarting my PC on Vista i looked at the memory consumption and damn… Just a plain Vista takes 512MB to run… I had not installed anything yet… LOL…
Now on to the Ubuntu installation…
Well that took quite some time maybe because of the CD. The installation procedures of Ubuntu are not as simple as Vista… Well after the installation i did some fine tuning of my ubuntu since i do not really like the default theme… What’s really cool in ubuntu is when u enable the desktop effects… that needs the nVidia Driver to be enabled.
I logged back on to the Vista and installed the basic softwares needed… With the antivirus and all.. Note that in ubuntu i do not have to install any antivirus 
Well Vista is really nice to use… it’s beautiful… but while using for some time it crashes with physical memory dump… maybe it’s because of my PC Specs?
I got a 2 GB of RAM, Pentium 4 2.8 HT Processor, 512 MB Graphic Card…
With Ubuntu i got really no great problem till now Ubuntu is a lot simple than Vista but it’s great to work with… Well just got a small problem to change the icons that i download from Gnome-look.org, When i apply the downloaded icon themes, the folder icons change to the default Gnome Icon…. The other Icons change but the Folders do not… If anyone could help please
I use Vista mostly for chatting on MSN and “playing games” though i do not get the time anymore…. I installed Vista on a 20 GB partition and u can say i did not install anything in that partition apart from some drivers and Skype which goes to drive C:/ by default… only 6GB left out of 20GB lol…
I have installed Ubuntu on another 20GB partition and got ample of space left (around 14GB which is enough for me to work on Ubuntu)
Got a separate partition to store my huge files… Still i think i need to buy a 250GB hard disk… lol…
Since i am more in favour of using freewares and open-source, i have installed IZArc instead of WinZip or WinRAR. And Installed CDBurnerXP instead of Nero Both are good to use… 
I have decided to base all my works on Ubuntu… It’s really worth giving it a try… 
Now waiting to try a MAC OS… hihihi
Rite$h said
Hmm ur Vista also giving memory dumps…just like mine, and in the end i removed it and reverted to XP SP3 Vista Style (more stable than Vista with its SP1 incl.
)
Waiting for Windows 7 to be released to try it…but I have a gut feeling it wud be same as Vista…no creativity from Microsoft these days…Windows 98 is more stable than Vista
Si to gain Mac OS pa blier fair 1 copy pu moi
#€|!0$ said
LOL… MAC OSX la mo p pense pou buy ene MacBook Pro em apres… mais acause banne processors on the laptops pas p rode buy la… waiting for some development… Enfin c pas pou astrla sa…
carrotmadman6 said
Vista crashing? Must be some driver issues perhaps.
I’ve got 3.06HT, 1GB memory & 128mb graphics… & Vista works perfectly.
As for MAC OSX, I wanted to try it out myself… except my PC is too old – it won’t support the hacked Leopard.
Well, check out those awesome Ubuntu to OSX transformation guides – they are *almost* perfect!
tushal said
I have just installed Vista Black edition..:p..Seems more “fast” than the windows xp..
#€|!0$ said
@carrotmadman6: I tried the Ubuntu to OSX transformation on Ubuntu 8.04… got quite fed up of it
Well wanna buy a MacBook Pro but it’s really too expensive for the power it is giving nowadays…
And i better wait for the Intel Core i7 to be stable and running on the market
@Tushal: Cote tne gagne sa black edition la toi? :S
Avish said
Haha tushal pa blie amen the copy pu moi
I am still at xp…. gonna try vista bu if it use too much memory am gonna get back to the old gold xp
#€|!0$ said
@Avish: Only with nothing installed on it it uses 512MB of ur RAM
Daks said
m adding u on facebook
Webdesign Bureau said
You might try building an inexpensive hackintosh! I’m still on XP, most companies are still on it waiting for W7. I’m more of a Fedora user concerning my nix but I think that I’ll check on this new Ubuntu Ibex sometime.
#€|!0$ said
@Daks: thanks… already accepted ur request
@Webdesign Bureau: Well right now am currently trying to use the ubuntu as a web server… well just to learn how to use it… Ubuntu is fun.. just that sometimes some wrong handling might cause it to crash… How stable is Fedora?
Webdesign Bureau said
I’ve been running fedora9 since it was released in May and it never crashed. I am also using all the webserver confs on it and I must say that it is cool,sleek, funk and actually beautiful. Concerning Ubuntu, maybe the next fixes in the packages will help it remain steady.
tushal said
**cough cough**you know how the system works..:p…
A friend of a friend of a friend..:p
Webdesign Bureau said
A friend of a friend of a friend.. called EMule or Bit-Torrent
#€|!0$ said
Well… gonna try Fedora as well… But gonna make some simple investigation first
Ubuntu is really easy to deploy a web server as well
Shah said
Use whatever meets your needs. ‘Nuff said.
Sailesh said
I have both on my system and no matter what people say VISTA remains the most secured and complete OS for a decade, and concerning memory consumption, well we are in 2008 , even 3GB seems less nowadays, The better the good
#€|!0$ said
Maybe it’s a conflict with one of my hardware system…